How To Use Plutarch In A Sentence
- As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task. Peggy
- a procession of women bearing small phallic images and singing hymns in honor of a deity whom he calls Dionysos -- probably Khem or Osiris or Bes; such images are mentioned by Plutarch, [721] supposed by him to represent Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
- Plutarch speaks of Ravenna as in Gaul, which he calls Galatia; but though Ravenna was within the limits of Cisalpine Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
- - Plutarch tells us that a statue of Athene (Neith) in Sais bore the inscription: “I am all that has been, is, and will be”. Jhvh is the enemy of god and man
- -- W.E. B_.] [Footnote 2: Plutarch tells how Sylla's body was so corrupted with these vermin, that they streamed from him into every place: _pasan esthêta kai loutron kai aponimma kai sition anapimplasthai tou reumatos ekeinon kai tes phthoras. tosouton exenthei. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
- Handel or his librettist found the story in Plutarch's chronicles of Roman notabilities, which had been magnificently Englished, in the 17th century, by Sir Thomas North.
- Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- He imposed on the people of Leptis an annual tax of 3,000,000 pounds weight of oil (pondo olei), which Plutarch translates by the Greek word litræ. Plutarch's Lives Volume III.
- Around the first century AD, the Greek historian Plutarch wrote about pirates of Cilicia who practiced the Mithraic "secret rites" around 67 BC.
- Plutarch hath almost made a book of the Lacedaemonian kind of jesting, which joined ever pleasure with distaste. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
